Why does Lepenski Vir seem to have so many sculptures? Museums are to blame! Multiple official reproductions exist in different institutions—Belgrade shows originals, the site museum shows copies. What you see in museums isn't always what's real.
Museum reproductions inflate perceived number of sculptures
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Key facts
- Multiple official reproductions of the same heads exist in different museums
- Belgrade Museum displays original sculptures
- Lepenski Vir museum has reproductions in display cases
- The full-scale excavation reproduction shows accurately placed sculptures
- Different lighting and angles of the same boulder appear as different objects
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Museums of Belgrade: A Serious Case of Misnamingwonderingvoyager.com
The park hosts a plethora of small and not so small museums dedicated to different aspects of Serbian history, often housed within the Belgrade ...
The 12000 Year-old Settlement of Lepenski Vir. - Leighton Travels!leightontravels.com
This incredible 12000 year old archaeological site is, claim historians, the oldest planned settlement in Europe!
Lepenski Vir - World History Encyclopediaworldhistory.org
The site shows evidence of a culture which is more than 8000 years old and which included social interactions, religious practices, architecture ...
Lepenski Vir - a Mesolithic site on the Iron Gates Gorge of the Danubedonsmaps.com
Lepenski Vir is a Mesolithic site - that means middle stone age, in this case 8 000 years before the present, after the ice had begun to melt from the glaciers.
An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube - The New York Timesnytimes.com
Unique sculptures date from the historical moment when two peoples and two cultures met on the banks of a section of the river, now known as the Iron Gates.
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